WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday the complete denuclearization by Pyongyang will require “robust verification,” while his South Korean counterpart insisted sanctions against North Korea would not be lifted before a June 12 leaders’ summit.

By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Republican head of the U.S. House of Representative’s oversight committee told Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt on Wednesday his agency has not provided requested documents about expensive air travel, including documents related to any threats that had been made on Pruitt. Representative Trey Gowdy, the oversight committee chairman, said in a letter to Pruitt that the EPA had not produced documents showing whether there was an individual waiver or authorization for purchasing first- or business-class air tickets.

Executives from Apple Inc and IBM Corp have called for more oversight on how personal data is used following the Facebook Inc breach that saw roughly 50 million users’ data misused by consultancy Cambridge Analytica. Speaking at the three-day China Development Forum in Beijing, Apple chief Tim Cook said “well-crafted” regulation was required, while IBM Corp chief Virginia Rometty said users should have more agency over their own data.

PRAGUE (Reuters) – Thousands of Czechs protested in Prague and other cities on Monday evening after parliament endorsed a Communist party lawmaker to head oversight of the police despite his past in a communist-era special unit.

PRAGUE (Reuters) – The head of the Czech Republic’s police oversight body GIBS said on Tuesday he had been asked to resign by Prime Minister Andrej Babis and that the government began an inquiry into the agency’s use of public funds.